the british to campaign against.
I fully agree with the rest of Salil's points.
If Samanth is still on silk - dude, now's the time to chime in.
Srini RamaKrishnan [13/12/11 02:50 +0100]:
I'd rather make a general case than argue with your semantics, but I
am unable because I am confused by your
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Salil Tripathi sali...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, Aadisht and Sruthi, for dragging the discussion back to a sensible,
non-juveline plane.
Ah the obligatory ad-hominem attack, wonderful!
Does anyone on the list have experience with permaculture or other
renewable lifestyles? I'm eager to hear first hand experiences, but also do
share if you have other thoughts on the subject.
Cheeni
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
Limited to particular climatic zones, or in general?
In general would be nice - rather than a how to for a specific case, I am
interested in the thinking that led to a permaculture lifestyle, and how
manageable it's been and
Has been cheated of a proper new year, or has had a surfeit of them,
whichever way you look at it - I was still in 2011 when I got on the
plane, and it was well into 2012 and 25 degrees warmer when I got off.
Happy 2012 everyone... no, no one clapped for the new year on board
the plane, or maybe
A pongal special featuring my humble self is being proposed for the
interested. I've been pestering Chandru to organize a photo walk around the
same time, maybe combine the two?
My my, 2012 might not be such a bad year if this is how it starts :-)
-- Forwarded message --
From: InfoSec News ale...@infosecnews.org
Date: Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:04 PM
Subject: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH
To: i...@infosecnews.org
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 2:01 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
7000 x 15000/50 is $2 million. No one can hack into hard cash.
Well, for some people their reputations are worth more than that.
Money isn't all of it. In the good old days we would have had a good
old stoning in the town square,
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 8:18 PM, John R. Sundman j...@wetmachine.com wrote:
Barak Obama family vacation here.
I hear it's popular with the hunted because it's easy to secure. True?
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
Or got them painted at the local bakery.
The yellow paint manufacturer conspiracy! They have surely funded
these shill scientists to piss on the red market.
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote:
Reputation is relative and fickle. And, those making serious money
have always ignored the first group.
Armpit Fraudia is ignorable - yes.
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
TV, no.
No-TV is the new atheism.
I like to watch video content, and would give an arm and a leg to
banish cheezburger kitteh videos from the interwebs, but I don't like
someone else deciding what I watch. Coke and Pepsi are
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com wrote:
I avoid it like a bad disease.
What's your position on food? Because, you know, 90% of the food in the
world is inedible crap. Sturgeon's Law is everywhere.
Heh, I seem to avoid 90% of the food therefore. Some
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
What sweet things did you all grow up with?
I can't be the only one preferring salty/fishy snacks
(e.g. Harðfiskur, though I really don't care for most
of Þorramatur), can I?
What no nice Surströmming?
My photos normally don't make reading material for this list, but this
one is possibly an exception.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheeni/6715593627/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheeni/6715606213/in/photostream/
Pulicat Lake, India, a glorious mammoth brackish water bio-preserve
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com
wrote:
My photos normally don't make reading material for this list, but this
one is possibly an exception.
What a portrait of despair, Cheeni. I
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:29 PM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
I am not sure if this situation is only because of the rocket launch center.
The saying goes, Once is accident, twice is coincidence, thrice is
enemy action.
No doubt there are many probable causes of economic detritus, but
Indian cops busted a relatively small cache of fake Indian currency in the
Indian capital of Delhi, about half a million dollars worth. They blamed
this on the Pakistani state naturally. People are used to the instant
finger pointing in the direction of the north westerly neighbor by now,
however,
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
My dad runs a security printing press that prints stuff like share
certificates, university degrees etc (not currency notes obviously)
However, the basic features mentioned there are just that - basic ones.
There
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Getting a perfect set of dies, paper and
inks is half the job.
The appearance and texture of the notes match Indian currency notes,
DCP (Special Cell) Arun Kampani said.
check, check, check I believe.
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
It wont cost 500 rupees to print a 100 rupee bill
Given that the Indian government's official policy for some years has
been to throw in the towel and issue new designs every so often to
stay ahead of the fakes,
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:53 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
It
has not ruled out the involvement of heavyweights in the Pakistan
government in this racket.
Wait, does this mean they are abusing the offices of power to use
Pakistani presses to make Indian notes for personal enrichment?
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Charles Haynes
charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
What is electro-yet watermark?
It's supposed to read Electrolyte watermark.
Quality ToI reporting in action. I left it in there because I was
rather annoyed at the idiotic reporting and couldn't be bothered to
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote:
Nothing tells about how high inflation is (the govt manipulated index
notwithstanding) than how cheap is the metal that goes into making the
coins.
It is also an indicator of how serious the government considers
itself.
This Nightline summary of the latest State of the Union speech is
quite decent. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOSsO0xUHtA]
And then the news item from today that makes me write this -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16714344
I find it somewhat curious that they decided to use the same
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Charles Haynes hay...@edgeplay.org wrote:
I would argue for the scientific method
*curses*
I would ignore Silk right now for lack of time, but this claim is an
important point to nuance, else it is dangerous.
Forgive me, for I am going to telescope a bit
Correction:
It was not last year, but 2002.
In the context of:
Human decisions themselves are not always so precise and expensive.
Daniel Kahneman's work on decision making that won him the Nobel Prize
for Econ. last year touches somewhat on this.
Nobel laureate, admittedly only for Economics, and also Turing Award
winner, Herb Simon did a lot of research on the attention economy.
The people who should have paid attention, us consumers, didn't - and the
people who did pay attention to his research were the marketers, who did
pay a lot of
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:51 PM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
Someone should do a cost comparison of this lifestraw vs
chlorinating water (which is what i have seen working , and what I do
personally if i have to drink filthy water ) -- i think its far
cheaper to chlorinate water and
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
The UN is sitting on very solid proposals worth about a couple of
Speaking of which the UN is currently engaged in a pleasant sounding
sham that's sucking a lot of valuable funds:
http://www.greeningtheblue.org
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:29 PM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
i think its impossible for the population and nations at large to
empathise and introspect on morality.
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:54 PM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 6:44 AM, John Sundman j...@wetmachine.com wrote:
The most glaring recent example of this philosophy in action was the
Transitional Government Authority (or whatever it was called) put in place
in
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:50 PM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
Closer to home (for most in this list that is), Manmohan Singh and
Montek Singh Ahluwalia both receive pensions from the World Bank.
I have read
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
A very good question that gets lost in all the libertarian rhetoric
Where are you getting the libertarian reference from?
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Deepak Shenoy deepakshe...@gmail.com wrote:
Technically everyone's manipulating currency. China's done it for
years, India has been doing it until Subbarao decided in 2010 that
they won't intervene, a strategy that lasted exactly one year: Last
December saw the
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
Naïve and facile generalizations are just what characterize the ron
paul-ish faux libertarianism, general hatred of big money, big government
etc rhetoric ..
Woah, again I ask, what libertarianism are you going
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:35 PM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
yeah i think cheney was the CEO of halliburton...and i remember there
was a case by the nigerian govt against halliburton for the period of
his tenure of his CEO. MMS and montek were consultants and bureaucrats
at the world
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Financial reforms versus gravy train subsidy? Mismanage and then sell bonds,
raise rates on freight etc?
I assume you are asking for examples where the government has backed
big business policies and found
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
BT Brinjal was stopped on health and safety grounds
In all of this I would be remiss if I did not call out the excellent
balancing act done by Jairam Ramesh [0,1,2], but he was kicked
upstairs because he was being too
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
Janathi
Natarajan
Jayanthi Natarajan of course.
On Feb 21, 2012 11:29 AM, Ingrid ingrid.srin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 February 2012 07:23, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
I found this really weird in NREGA ... the requirement that no
mechanized equipment can be used. What was the motivation behind it ?
Limiting NREGA work to
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Deepak Shenoy deepakshe...@gmail.com wrote:
a) NREGS is not helping and is leading to inflation: FALSE
a) NREGS is at
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:55 PM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
I dont know if i want to even call it western since indian society
is actually very materialistic
Not materialism as much as a fondness for the past versus the future.
Rural India is somewhere between a weak feudality and a
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Tradition and modernity have always coexisted, even in Latin America
I don't quite see why one has to entirely throw the other out
Read the book.
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Deepak Shenoy deepakshe...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
# Mukesh Ambani with a known personal wealth of $22.6 Billion could
run the NREGA for 3-4 years on savings
- i.e. he has 2-3 times more money than 42 million Indian households
put together earn in a year.
On Feb 23, 2012 8:49 AM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
Its interesting you mention the ming dynasty in this context. Sometime
back i finished reading Charles Mann's 1493 (
http://www.amazon.com/1493-Uncovering-Columbus-Created-ebook/dp/B004G606EY
). there is a really interesting part of
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
And all the other little decadences of the mings didn't have a thing to do
with this?
Decadence rarely on its own brings an empire down, but it often
precedes a fall. A new currency, whether it is silver or tea,
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
But by that same logic the brits with all their opium, cotton etc from india
would have crashed and burned long back, not after labor era socialism, the
loss of their colonies etc
They've gone into a slow
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Cheeni found that ironic :). And for every such empire builder type who died
poor, there's no shortage of his peers who started out poor but died filthy
rich. I wish we could say this was about natural justice
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Yes but how much education do you actually need to swing a sword and get
whatever rudimentary amount of military tactics you'd need in those days,
much before the series of 17th - 19th century wars that built a
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Pizzarro's brother Gonzalo did try - and defeated and killed a viceroy that
the king sent to replace him.
Rebellion to form a feudal state is some thing else - we are talking
in hypotheticals here - the reality is
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Heather Madrone heat...@madrone.com wrote:
This is pushing me in the direction of top-posting.
Why not push you in the direction of a new email program? What
features are becoming important in email programs these days? I know
that for me the decision to move to
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd had enough of the silliness of
pine/eudora/mulberry/outlook/mutt/thunderbird madness.
Should really read:
I'd had enough of the silliness of
pine/eudora/mulberry/outlook/mutt/thunderbird data migration madness
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:44 PM, thew...@gmail.com wrote:
I find bottom posting gauche and insensitive. Its difficult to read, and I
really can't understand why its still relevant today. I suppose its one of
those quaint vestigal remnants of an early form of netiquette?
Bottom posting makes
There's this deep seated inverse relationship between cultural
diversity and trust that is going to be a challenge when we undeniably
face increasing globalization, and personal mobility.
Cash on delivery is quite common in India; and it's small businesses
that often work this way - you can call
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
There's this deep seated inverse relationship between cultural
diversity and trust that is going to be a challenge when we undeniably
face increasing globalization, and personal mobility.
On college campuses, which
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Well .. you're describing sort of what happened in India in your first
paragraph.
Also the USA.
On Feb 25, 2012 8:40 AM, Chew Lin Kay chewlin@gmail.com wrote:
Glomped from the Oct 2011 edition of Vogue India--
This is what Hollywood would be if hip-hop became universally acceptable,
and not a mostly black thing. Unsurprisingly Punjabi hiphop had to happen
of course.
I don't object
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Chew Lin Kay chewlin@gmail.com wrote:
Arguably we need the state and civil society to do all these things because
left to our own devices, we hardly smile at our neighbours? :)
That's a fair observation. But then I can see this is the case in many
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
As one example, I cite what David Brin calls the dogma of Otherness
http://www.crackaddict.com/~nalgas/David_Brin-Dogma_of_Otherness_Intro.html
[...]
There's always another way of looking at things' is a basic assumption
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Heh. Agreed. That said, one could make a fairly convincing argument
that the tea party (rather, the old white rich guy club that it is one
face of) is systematically killing (or at least, attempting to)
whatever made the
On Feb 28, 2012 6:16 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, isn't the tea party mostly middle-aged, non-college-educated
blue collar workers? And aren't the current tamasha with the Republican
primaries the battle between the old white rich guys (Romney) and the
middle-aged,
On Feb 28, 2012 6:16 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, isn't the tea party mostly middle-aged, non-college-educated
blue collar workers? And aren't the current tamasha with the Republican
primaries the battle between the old white rich guys (Romney) and the
middle-aged,
On Feb 28, 2012 7:43 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
*cough*, Koch brothers *cough*
Which is why I said mostly.
According to some sources, and Al jazzeera, BBC et al have documentaries on
this, the Koch brothers have single handedly created the tea party
phenomenon.
On the phone, can't
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Raj Shekhar spa...@rajshekhar.net wrote:
Did not know India had a firewall in place. I know that the ISPs are
under the thumb of the government and will dance to whatever tune is
played. Is that what you are referring to?
India is intending to gett its
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Aanjhan Ranganathan aanj...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
Do you folks have any recommendation for books on Chanakya's [1]
teachings and philosophies?
What do you hope to learn from C or even from Machiavelli's Prince? I
hear there's a rather slow and dusty writer
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:12 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
How is one supposed to know what one can learn from any book before reading
it? Perhaps a reader could learn what ethically challenged means?
I assume one does not read Chanakya to read fine poetry; he is about
statecraft and real
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Aanjhan Ranganathan aanj...@gmail.com wrote:
Wrong assumption.
But I haven't mentioned any assumptions? Just curious about your reasons...
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Encourage immigration.
Encourage education.
Encourage risk-taking.
Does this lead to Get re-elected?
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
Encourage immigration.
Encourage education.
Encourage risk-taking.
Does this lead to Get re-elected?
While I understand what you're asking
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Sruthi Krishnan srukr...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_week/singleton/
I've done mostly under 40 hours per week for the last 3 years, it's been
undoubtedly good for me. It's all a question of compromises one is
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Sruthi Krishnan srukr...@gmail.comwrote:
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_week/singleton/
I've done mostly under 40 hours per week for the last 3 years
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Bharat Shetty bharat.she...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm,
Nice article. I've been guilty of shooting beyond 40 hours a week
easily despite efforts to curb it.
What efforts specifically? Desire is not effort of course, and while
there can be exceptions for brief
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:04 PM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
Were they all singles ? If you have a family and kids - then you have
to stick to a routine, and your life gets defined by it (not the
routine, but by the family) . Its mostly single men and women who do
long and extended
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:57 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
Something is bound to give, sooner or later.
This doesn't work very well for the industry either. When people are
forced into doing something, they begin to hate their unjust lives,
and in the process lose their capacity to act
On Mar 27, 2012 10:21 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
Saritha Rai's new fortnightly column in the New York Times online-
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/when-daycare-slips-into-night-care
Not that long ago a major controversy broke out in Switzerland when one of
the
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:50 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
The former conforms to dharma, the latter is adharma.
The many liberated Communist states have their favorite coping phrases
to describe their transition to a market economy and its effect on
society. When human and economic dreams
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:25 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
I cannot believe that the old system was always good; the concept of family
before self, of duty before self, did, in my opinion, lead to a lot of bad
practices, and deep unhappiness. This was especially so when a person
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:25 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
But, Cheeni, you criticise Shiv for terming it dharma vs adharmabut
when you call it a silent killer of the night (I remembered Bhopal when I
read that)...you too, take a judgemental stance.
It is a silent killer
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:35 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
With India's historical disdain for the humanities, neither historian
nor sociologist was around to fully record or explain the scale of the
destruction.
Srini this is wrong. The history and and sociologuists merely wroet out
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram
r.sunda...@gmail.com wrote:
Udhay has a pet phrase, throwing Shuriken in all directions, that
reflects both his conversational gambit and his love of cheesy Hong
Kong flicks.
Nothing exemplies this better than Aakar Patel's latest column
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there something significant in the fact that there has been no response
to this email in the past four hours?
I wouldn't know, I don't use Facebook, so this email was of no relevance to me.
On Mar 31, 2012 6:26 AM, Aadisht Khanna li...@aadisht.net wrote:
On 29-03-2012 20:44, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
Affluence is definitely a prime culprit - during the zenith of the
Imperium Romanum there was a similar crisis when free Romans didn't
want to marry, because it was a drag
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Aadisht Khanna [31/03/12 09:54 +0530]:
On 29-03-2012 20:44, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
Cheeni, do you have a citation for this, please? I was under the
impression that income tax (and therefore any benefits
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Deepak Shenoy deepakshe...@gmail.com wrote:
To balance the personal with the social and familial is a tough thing
to do in the modern world where choices are increasingly personal
because the personal has a short-termist appeal to the curious.
I can't agree
I'll be around thereabouts all of next week, anyone else?
Cheeni
Hi Mark,
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 7:03 PM, mark seiden m...@seiden.com wrote:
i'm often in new york, but not next week.
but i know it well, so if anyone needs recommendations, i can supply. the
more specific the requirements,
the easier to satisfy them...
Too bad about next week, maybe
I'm vegetarian and I find no trouble finding good food in New York. If
she's near a whole foods store, they have take away boxes of hot fresh
vegetarian food, Indian even.
Google, yelp is her friend.
On Apr 2, 2012 8:24 AM, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote:
This is NBG. Sandhya, who
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Thaths [02 April 2012 18:51]:
http://www.happycow.net/north_america/usa/new_york/new_york_city/
We need a sadcow just for the steak joints and delis serving hot pastrami on
rye sandwiches :)
Wasn't that called
I think the hypothesis gives little credit for emotion. Play it again
Sam, or, of all the gin joints in all the world... is not memorable
because it is reusable, or because it's phrased memorably. So too, a line
also becomes famous and oft repeated for the character saying it, cue
Gabbar Singh.
On
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Well well .. I sort of suspected someone would have written a paper on this.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/rev/8/2/113/
Citation
Database: PsycARTICLES
[ Journal Article ]
The psychology of profanity.
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
e and oe two aussie blokes calling each other bastard and poofter over their
next tinny of castlemaine
Yes, there is that category that Udhay described as punctuation and verbal tics.
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
In India, we don't seem to have this kind of brand resistance. We have
a Japanese brand called Yamaha that sells pretty well, thank you,
when Yama is the God of Death.
The joke in the 80s was - what would a merger of
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Nikhil Mehra nikhil.mehra...@gmail.com wrote:
The RD 350 used to be called the Yamdoot because it had the highest
acceleration of any indian bike. Caused a lot of deaths.
It's funny in hindsight, but in the blighted automobile economy of 80s
India it used to be
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:09 PM, ashok _ listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
There is also the Mitsubishi Pajero ... which I dont believe they sell
with the same name in Spain and Latin america since Pajero isnt a
pleasant word.
Public service message - the relevant bits of wikipedia.
The Alpine glaciers have receded in the last three decades
significantly, often by kilometers. This is well supported even with
just local evidence - pictures taken from the same point over the
years, and hasn't required fancy satellite pictures. I have the rather
first hand experience of having
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 8:29 AM, salil tripathi sali...@gmail.com wrote:
And ec(n)r prevented school-drop-out artists from travelling, since if you
hadn't finished hi school, assumption was that sarkar maibaap would be
needed to
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:26 PM, salil tripathi sali...@gmail.com wrote:
Globally-mobile Indians also include labourers who go to middle east/SE
Asia. Creating a two-tier passport system would concretise class/caste
system. If you wear suits, have credit cards, and speak english and work for
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Andre Manoel an...@corp.insite.com.br wrote:
2. Also, one thing that I think is very important: Brazilians who show
up at an airport in the US or Europe are usually white and don't look
that different from, say, an Italian, Spanish or sometimes a German.
Many
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Sometime in the early 2000's I started noticing that Indian passport holders
had become much more sophisticated (laptops, designer clothing, etc.) and
the the SE Asian diaspora Indians started appearing to be the less
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